Hubs and Fictions: On Current Art and Imported Remoteness

Audio from the book launch of Hubs and Fictions: On Current Art and Imported Remoteness, edited by Sophia Yadong Hao and Edgar Schmitz and published by Sternberg Press in November 2016.
The event included a conversation with Dr Andrea Phillips, Professor of Art and Head of Research at Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg, who discussed the compromised status of the remote in a globally distributed art-world ecology.

Hubs and Fictions was originally a touring forum in 2012, which invited international curators, writers, and producers to probe how fiction plays out in a globally distributed art-world ecology, and how infrastructures are being invented against this background. The forum was staged at Cooper Gallery (Dundee), Baltic (Gateshead), Goldsmiths (London), and operated as a satellite event to Edgar Schmitz’s exhibition “Surplus Cameo Decor,” curated by Sophia Yadong Hao at Cooper Gallery.

The book functions as a deliberately discontinuous reader; it juxtaposes documents, negotiations, and reflections from and on these conversations. The publication also includes a preface by Andrea Phillips, a new image sequence by Schmitz, and a suite of reflexive annotations exchanged between Hao and Schmitz. Design by Marco Stout, Stout/Kramer.